$9.99 (−50%)Infernax A Cursed Kingdom, A Bloody Choice
Fight through a grim 8-bit world of monsters and twisted villages, leveling up and exploring as your decisions decide which ending you earn.
Is Infernax worth it?
Infernax is worth it if…
- you grew up on NES action games and want that feel with modern, fair controls
- you like metroidvania maps full of secrets, skills and locked-off areas
- you want a story where your choices actually change the ending
- you enjoy gory, violent combat against ugly monsters
- you want a couch co-op game with real depth for the second player
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A cursed homeland to explore
Duke Alcedor returns from crusade to Upel and finds unholy magic everywhere: monsters in the fields, something wrong in the towns, and five castle dungeons standing between him and the source of it all. This is a side-scrolling adventure in the old Castlevania mold, with an open world full of secret areas, towns with people to talk to, and a day and night cycle that changes which creatures come out. After dark, things get worse outside the walls. Skills you find in the castles, like a ground smash, an upward strike and a charged horizontal leap, open up parts of the map you could not reach before.
Choices with consequences
The story bends around what you do. Slay or help someone? Spare a village or use it? A single decision can change which side quests open up, which weapons and skills you can get, and how the whole thing ends, with multiple endings ranging from righteous to thoroughly evil. The game remembers: that thing you did to that guy? Farmer Pepper remembers. The morality behind it all stays partly hidden, so a second run where you do the exact opposite of your first is genuinely a different game, new routes, new gear, new endings.
Smash, level up, gear up
Combat is simple and satisfying: swing your mace, knock enemies back, smash as many as you can. They drop coin and experience. Spend the money at the blacksmith on better weapons and armor, put experience into more health, more mana or more damage, and buy spells that also unlock hidden places.
Bringing a friend along
The update added a second character, the squire Cervul, and he is no decoration. Play local two-player co-op with a friend, or run hot-swap mode and control both characters yourself, switching on the fly. Cervul has his own tools and his own upgrade paths, from support to damage, and he even gets lines in conversations. Some bosses are much easier with his attacks, and enemy placement changes to suit two fighters, so you think about switching weapons instead of just pushing through. It turns a solid solo adventure into a proper couch co-op one.
Frequently asked questions?
Can you play Infernax solo?
Yes, and it works well alone. The squire Cervul can join you through hot-swap mode, where one player controls both characters and switches between them on the fly, so you get the two-character gameplay without a second person. There is also a support character option for playing by yourself.
Is Infernax hard?
It is challenging in the old-school way, but fair: crisp controls, readable bosses and no cheap difficulty from unfair enemies or jumps. The platforming is the punishing part, since falling into a pit, water or lava kills you outright, and some dungeons place enemies exactly where you least want them. Difficulty levels let you soften that if you want.
How long is Infernax, and is it worth replaying?
A first run is fairly short, but that is by design. Different choices open different side quests, weapons and endings, and finishing the game unlocks new playable characters and modes with their own playstyles. Replaying with opposite choices, or in co-op, plays out differently enough to be worth another round.
Does it play like a real retro game or a modern one?
It looks and sounds like an 8-bit classic, with pixel art, chiptune music and old-school design, but the controls are modern and responsive, with no stiff, dated handling. There are even cheat codes if you just want to mess around, from infinite lives to stranger things.
